8:00 – 8:30 am: Registration & Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 am: Welcome, Agenda & Context Setting
Jeff Muhs (CSU Energy Institute)

8:45 – 9:05 am: RSVP Results & Dialogue Primer
Martin Carcasson (CSU Center for Public Deliberation)

9:05 – 9:35 am: Small Group Dialogue #1

9:35 – 9:50 am: Break

9:50 – 10:50 am: Panel 1 – The Climate Change Challenge in Colorado
– Moderator: Peter Backlund (CSU School of Global Environmental Sustainability)
– Russ Schumacher (CSU & Colorado State Climatologist)
– Lisa Dilling (University of Colorado – Boulder, Professor of Environmental Studies)

10:50 – 11:30 am: Small Group Dialogue #2

11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Lunch

12:30 – 1:30 pm: Panel 2 – Climate Impacts & Adaptation Opportunities and Challenges
– Moderator: Caroline Havrilla (CSU Climate Adaptation Partnership)
– Brad Udall (CSU Water Center)
– Camille Stevens-Rumann (CSU Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship)
– Gene Kelly (CSU Agricultural Experiment Station)

1:30 – 2:15 pm: Small Group Dialogue #3

2:15 – 2:30 pm: Break

2:30 – 3:30 pm: Panel 3 – Emissions Reduction, Sequestration, and Removal Opportunities and Challenges
– Moderator: Bryan Willson (Executive Director, CSU Energy Institute)
– Ned Harvey (CEO, Digital Gaia)
– Jane Zelikova (Executive Director, CSU Soil Carbon Solutions Center)
– Ed Barbier (University Distinguished Professor, CSU Department of Economics)

3:30 – 4:15 pm: Small Group Dialogue #4

4:15 – 4:30 pm: Break

4:30 – 5:00 pm: Panel 4 – Reflections on Day 1 of the Climate Transitions Dialogue
– Moderator: Josie Plaut (CSU Institute for the Built Environment)
– Joe von Fischer (CSU Biology)
– Honoré Depew (City of Fort Collins Climate Program Manager)
– Victor Galvan (Strategic Partnership Manager, Conservation Colorado)

5:00 – 5:15 pm: Day 1 Close Out
– Peter Backlund

5:15 – 7:00 pm: Reception with Themed Discussion Areas